Job candidates fill out forms for employment interviews at a job fair in March. The Labor Department recently said that U.S. companies have posted the highest number of job openings in nearly four years, a sign that hiring could strengthen in the coming months after slowing this spring.

If gloom is what you want, there’s no dearth of it. You just have to open a business newspaper or switch on a business channel to get your fill of dark and depressing news about the future of the Indian economy. Stocks, currency, inflation, policy, politics, profits — no matter which aspect you look at — nothing is said to be going right.

Ever since March, when the New York Times decided to make a cause celebre out of the resignation of Greg Smith , a vice president at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) , a cottage industry of first-person Wall Street departure stories has sprung up across the print media and blogosphere.